Open-source projects

Written the R Development Guide in 2021 as a project funded by the R Foundation. Mentor: Heather Turner, Michael Lawrence.

Completed the Google Summer of Code 2020 with the Turing team of the Julia language organisation. Mentor: Hong Ge, Cameron Pfiffer, Miles Lucas.

Created Zine for CarpenPi organization with a funding from the Data Science by Design (DSxD) initiative.

Lightning talk & Hack Day participation at CollabW22: Presented a lightning talk on “RSE Asia Association: In making” at the Collaborations Workshop 2022 hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute. Also presented a pitch to build a Carpentries-style Lesson on R's Bug Tracking Process which secured the 3rd position on the Hack Day. As a part of this task we converted the materials from the Collaboration Campfires (on learning how to contribute to R) into a reusable lesson using The Carpentries Workbench template and the R package sandpaper. The lesson created is hosted on the r-devel GitHub organization.

Workshop talk at APAN53: Presented a talk on “Research Software Engineering initiative in Asia region” at Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN53, Bangladesh). This talk was a part of the workshop on “Growing research software initiatives and communities in the Asia Pacific”.

Panel discussion at APAN53: Presented my talk at the Panel Discussion on “https://github.com/SaranjeetKaur/APAN53_Slides_Panel_Discussion” held at APAN53, Bangladesh.

Lightning talk at PackagingCon 2021: Presented a lightning talk on “Turing.jl: An Overview”. The talk was an overview of Turing.jl which is a Julia library focusing on Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming. This was the first edition of PackagingCon 2021, which is a conference held with the aim to bring various software eco-systems together.

Invited talk at LatinR 2021: Presented a Invited talk on “R Development Guide: Motivation, First Draft, and the Way Forward”. This is a Latinamerican conference about the use of R in R&D.

Virtual poster presentation at JuliaCon 2021: I presented a virtual poster of my work based on ‘Algorithmic Variants of Nested Sampling’. I developed these algorithms while working for the Google Summer of Code 2020 with the Turing team of the Julia Language organization. I also moderated the single track sessions of JuliaCon 2021.

Regular talk at useR! 2021 - The R Conference: In the ‘1A Community and Outreach 1’ session on the ‘R Developer’s Guide’ (now called as the ‘R Development Guide’). During the conference, I also attended the tutorials on ‘Contributing to R’ (conducted by Gabriel Becker and Martin Maechler) and ‘Translating R to Your Language’ (conducted by Michael Chirico and Michael Lawrence). I was also the Zoom Host for various tutorials and sessions of this international online conference.